The Edison international space observatory and the future of infrared space astronomy

Thronson, H. A.; Hawarden, T. G.; Davies, John K.; Penny, A. J.; Orlowska, A. H.; Sholomitskii, G. B.; Saraceno, P.; Vigroux, L.; Thompson, Donna M.

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“…The AstroTech conference (Illingworth 1991) reviewed possibilities for large telescopes and cited the Bahcall report. In 1993, the Edison mission, a deployable 2m+ diameter infrared telescope, was proposed to ESA (Thronson et al 1996). Larger format infrared detector arrays, in part spurred by the NICMOS development, enabled galaxy surveys (e.g., Gardner et al The Edison concept included passive cooling, and some of the people working on Edison brought that experience to the JWST team later.…”

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Twenty-six years ago a small committee report, building on earlier studies, expounded a compelling and poetic vision for the future of astronomy, calling for an infrared-optimized space telescope with an aperture of at least 4 m. With the support of their governments in the US, Europe, and Canada, 20,000 people realized that vision as the 6.5 m James Webb Space Telescope. A generation of astronomers will celebrate their accomplishments for the life of the mission, potentially as long as 20 yr, and beyond. This report and the scientific discoveries that follow are extended thank-you notes to the 20,000 team members. The telescope is working perfectly, with much better image quality than expected. In this and accompanying papers, we give a brief history, describe the observatory, outline its objectives and current observing program, and discuss the inventions and people who made it possible. We cite detailed reports on the design and the measured performance on orbit.

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“…The AstroTech conference (Illingworth 1991) reviewed possibilities for large telescopes and cited the Bahcall report. In 1993, the Edison mission, a deployable 2m+ diameter IR telescope, was proposed to ESA (Thronson et al 1996). Larger format IR detector arrays, in part spurred by the NICMOS development, enabled galaxy surveys (e.g., Gardner et al 1993) and other near-IR science with ground-based telescopes.…”

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Proceedings of From Planets to Dark Energy: The Modern Radio Universe — PoS(MRU)

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The scientific capabilities of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) fall into four themes. The End of the Dark Ages: First Light and Reionization theme seeks to identify the first luminous sources to form and to determine the ionization history of the universe. The Assembly of Galaxies theme seeks to determine how galaxies and the dark matter, gas, stars, metals, morphological structures, and active nuclei within them evolved from the epoch of reionization to the present. The Birth of Stars and Protoplanetary Systems theme seeks to unravel the birth and early evolution of stars, from infall onto dust-enshrouded protostars, to the genesis of planetary systems. The Planetary Systems and the Origins of Life theme seeks to determine the physical and chemical properties of planetary systems around nearby stars and of our own, and investigate the potential for life in those systems. To enable these four science themes, JWST will be a large (6.6m) cold (50K) telescope launched to the second Earth-Sun Lagrange point early in the next decade. It is the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, and is a partnership of NASA, ESA and CSA. JWST will have four instruments: The Near-Infrared Camera, the Near-Infrared multi-object Spectrograph, and the Tunable Filter Imager will cover the wavelength range 0.6 to 5 microns, while the Mid-Infrared Instrument will do both imaging and spectroscopy from 5 to 28.5 microns. In this paper, I review the status and capabilities of the observatory and instruments in the context of the major scientific goals.From planets to dark energy: the modern radio universe

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The Edison international space observatory and the future of infrared space astronomy

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